Before I get into the nitty-gritty #MGMA14 Twitter stats, I’m sure the 20 (out of 343!) exhibitors I inducted into my People and Organizations improving Workflow with Health IT just wanna see their names up in lights. So, here are the “Twenty”. The links lead to my POW!HIT! directory. Love some comments! (Such as: “Thank you for this great honor….”)
- Clinicspectrum
- 1TouchEMR
- Aviacode
- CanonUSAimaging
- Chetu
- Demandforce
- Experian Health
- IngeniousMed
- IntegratedMP
- JopariSolutions
- Newport Credentialing Solutions
- Nuance Healthcare
- pingmd
- Prognocis EHR
- RemitDATA
- Sandlot Solutions
- Smart Clinic
- TriZetto
- VersusTech
The Medical Group Management Association Annual Conference is not yet over. However two of three exhibit hall sessions are completed. Monday may be the peak tweet traffic day on the #MGMA14 Twitter hashtag (if other conferences are representative; there’s no Symplur analytics for #MGMA13). I want to get this blog post into the #MGMA14 tweet stream before it dies away, so I’m publishing this Tuesday during the likely tweet traffic peak.
Unlike the HIMSS Conference, for which I’ve done detailed, hour-by-hour, year-to-year comparisons of #HIMSS12, #HIMSS13, #HIMSS14 tweet traffic, there are no #MGMA13 twitter statistics on Symplur. In fact, I registered #HIMSS14 on Symplur so we’d have a least the following. I look forward to comparing to next year’s #MGMA15!
So, as of close of MGMA conference exhibit hall on Monday, over the previous two days, there had been over four million “impressions” (sum of all tweeters, for each of tweeter number of tweets times followers), 1787 tweets on the #MGMA14 hashtag, 382 folks tweeted at a rate of 37 tweets per hour. Each participant tweeted an average of five times. Of course, that’s the average, some people, like myself, tweeted a whole lot more than the average!
Sunday was spiky, early on lots of traveling to #MGMA14 tweets, then a big roar at the opening of the conference. Most off the tweets on Monday happened between about 8-9AM to 2-3PM PST, which makes sense (the exhibit hall closed at 2PM).
I tweeted with the big dawgs, so to speak. I’m in the following three rankings of Twitter accounts. 🙂
Those are the stats. They’re just a static picture at a particular point in time. But I think it does give you a sense of the energy, rhythms, and volume. The rest of the blog post is about a subject near-and-dear to my heart: workflow!
Here’s my Blogging/Twitter Mission Statement, which I occasionally tweet:
Chuck, DC, Mission Statement: Use knowledge, events, connections, humor 2promote >
— Charles Webster MD ()
Before major conferences, I look at all the exhibitors to find the folks with great healthcare workflow stories. Since I’ve been taking about healthcare workflow and workflow tech literally for decades, and most recently very active on social media, I do what ever I can to help this folks in the workflow white hat improve workflow in healthcare with health IT. In fact, I even have a digital badge encourage folks to use, the POW-HIT badge. Yes, “POW”, “HIT” just like in the old Batman TV show!
The following are some of the tweets, by me and by others (including my POWer HITters!).
Yep, I made the following photo. Many thanks to for tweeting it!
Via colorful 2 see efficient, effective, flexible, even FUN med practice WORKFLOW!
— TIVA HealthCare ()
has one of the colorful info graphics, which it let me tweet. Eat your heart out USA Today!
Entire 8-Step Infographic! Ideal Medical Practice Workflow booth 330
— Charles Webster MD ()
The following? Well, I’ll use almost any means to get folks interested in healthcare workflow: humor…
Giveaway! You mention 'workflow' re a presentation, product or service, I'll give you an RT! ?
— Charles Webster MD ()
…education…
Illustrates classic workflow tech connection: customizable executable workflow & visibility of workflow state
— Charles Webster MD ()
… current events…
Practices buried under my DX what went wrong >
— Charles Webster MD ()
(that last tweet, the second link leads to one of my more popular blog posts about Meaningful Use and workflow)
… art 🙂 …
Witnessing rise of a healthcare workflow 'culture'! From data 2 user interface 2 workflow! TY to leading way!
— Charles Webster MD ()
… humor …
true, eligibility needs mix auto+human WORKFLOW BTW love WORKFLOW hat!
— Charles Webster MD ()
… flattery …
Awesome! 22 out of 343 exhibitors mention 'workflow' in self-descriptions! Progress!!! pic.twitter.com/oQIiuFa33V
— Charles Webster MD ()
…technical expertise …
Added to http://t.co/rfcUqRpPe5 Surprised not there already (or previous years!)
— Charles Webster MD ()
… and whatever else I can think of at the time to MAKE PEOPLE PAY ATTENTION TO WORKFLOW!!! (Got your attention, didn’t I?)
Now, if you’ve actually made down this far in the blog post, you must actually be interested in healthcare, health IT, and EHR workflow! Just my way of pre-qualifying leads… 🙂
Anyway, if you’re intrigued (um, concerned?) by my obsession with healthcare workflow and workflow technology, I hope you’ll come to my free webinar at 12 Noon EST on November 5th. Here’s the tweet, so you can retweet it. But if you click on the link in the tweet it leads to my blog post about the webinar. And the first line is to the webinar registration page, so you can be reminded before it starts with a link to click on to participate.
What is workflow tech? Nov 5: My Webinar on EHR Workflow Engines, Editors & Visibility
— Charles Webster MD ()
In my webinar I’ll cover the following:
- What it workflow?
- What is workflow technology?
- What is a workflow engine?
- What is a workflow editor?
- What is workflow visibility?
And why healthcare so desperately needs the above, embedded in the EHRs and health IT systems we use daily.
See you there!